Monday, June 25, 2012

I finally found some time to finish another week in my PL album. Week 24 was a HUGE week. A beach road trip, shopping for clothes, tramp, and a swingset, and easter weekend !! Oh boy. But I did it and I tried to go a little bit simple this week.

I absolutely loved the colors of this week. It was a lot of blues and yellows with a little pink thrown in at the end.

For this one I took a foldable journaling card and journaled on it first. And then added my embellishments. I choose this card because I needed the extra room to journal about why we went down to Ventura and what we did while we were there.

The star is from October Afternoon 9-5. April sticker from little yellow bicycle. And the #2 is from Tim Holtz.

I used a picture that I took of the beach to journal on and I love the effect. So fun and simple.

This one I wanted to make sure that I linked the picture and the journaling card. So I used the arrow from Studio Calico and outlined it with my black pen to make it stand out. "THE VIEW" was awesome by the way !! I could have lived there, at least for a little while.

I wanted to do some traditional pages about our beach trip. So I ended up doing a 1 page and then a 2 page layout with some of the pictures from our trip. I just love that the colors were similar and this is how it looked in the book.

Here is a look at the scrapbook page. I scraplifted it from Kelly Noel here. Although I added some things just to make it mine ! Most of the supplies were from my Studio Calico kit.

I also did a 2 page layout but it is in at the scrapbook store as my design team entry for the next term. On the other side of the 2 pager was a very simple layout I did about Easter Sunday.

THE INSERT :

I added 1 insert this week. I took Design C and cut off the other side of the 4x6's. Added the tab from October Afternoon 9-5.

THE PICTURES :

Brush is from the Cobalt Digital Extra Elements.

We went to a park on the beach where they had an actual zip line. The kids loved it and rode it again, and again.

In the middle of the two photos I added a journaling space by using a foldable journaling card. I printed on both sides and then added my simple embellishments.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

I feel like I haven't had to chance to catch my breath since summer began. Hopefully things will slow down this week for us.

The week after school let out we spent another day in Disneyland. Just me and the kids. Patrick was working in the area and so we went to stay with him. Anaheim just happened to be on our way to the hotel.

The next morning was spent here

And then we ventured here ( A cute little aquarium )

Then we went and spent the remainder of the afternoon here

It was an unexpected and wonderful trip to kick off the summer. We also got to meet up with my brother and his fiance for dinner. It was great to see them again. Super excited and can't wait for their wedding. In less than 2 weeks.

This past week I have had the kids in swim lessons. All three of them. So we have been spending our mornings at the pool.

Maddie is one of the kids hanging on the wall.

Katelyn on the kick board

Katelyn and her class kicking and splashing their teacher

Katelyn jumping off

Me and Noah. I get to go in with Noah and I love it

I really appreciate you all being patient with me. It has been super quiet around here lately. I have been making some changes to my priority list and it is making everyone more happy. Also this past week I was busy preparing for Noah's birthday party that was yesterday. All this has left me less time for being creative. I also have been so busy with summer that I have hardly touched my PL album !! Yikes. I know. I am hoping that I can get another week done this week and share it with you before life gets crazy again. My parents are coming down for a visit before we all head down for the wedding festivities.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Back on Memorial Day we set off for an adventure. The cooler was packed, the destination kind of up in the air, and the water bottles ready for a hike. We set out in a general direction not knowing exactly where we were headed. An hours long drive found us in a little town up in the mountains. They just happened to have a great park, right by the river. A perfect place for a picnic.

First up was lunch. I had packed the cooler full of food and also grabbed some chips, cookies, ect., not knowing I had forgotten the loaf of bread for our sandwiches. Thankfully there was a gas station across from the park that sold bread. We set up camp and ate our lunch. Then it was on to our next adventure.

We had done a little research before hand about the area that we were currently in. Without having ever been there we drove up the road, looking for a place to hike. We finally settled on a little trail that looked suitable. The sign said Salmon Falls.

With Katelyn as our guide we ventured up the trail.

Finding HUGE pine cones along the way. Katelyn and Maddie wanted to take them home and on the way back there is a steep decline in the trail. We told them to just drop their pine cones down the trail and pick them up at the bottom so that they could focus on getting down the trail. They kept saying " Oh no ! Runaway pine cones !!" All the way down the hill.

There was hand holding

And stick finding.

And a whole lot of rock throwing by a certain boy.

There was also rock climbing, and daddy scaring the kids. He snuck behind Katelyn and grabbed her, scaring her real bad.

Last but not least, there was a lot of sunshine. It was a hot day and the sun was beating down on us.

LEFT SIDE : Stamped on the blank card before running it through the printer. The car on the bottom is a sticker from a sheet all about the Ford Mustang !!

RIGHT SIDE : Selfy taken on the beach after he took a run on the sand.

I asked Patrick to write a little something about his trip. It was to long for a single journaling card so I put it on two cards. Used the "Discover" word from Heidi Swap to connect the two journaling cards.
I lined the two cards together and then put the sticker on both of the card and cut it down the middle.

I had two inserts this week. They are both from the Johnson Space Center.

This first one is a 6x12 page protector. Added some journaling on the bottom. This is what it looks like layered in the book. I had some leftover space themed stickers from a design team assignment that I used throughout the two inserts.

Here is a close up of journaling.

Here is the other side. This is one of HUGE engines that they use.

INSERT #2 :

I used a Becky Higgins page protector Design G. I cut the vertical strip off. Didn't need that many photos.

That is it for week 13. Just started on week 14. Oh my is a HUGE week. LOTS happened. So it is going to take some time to sort through and get it done. I will share some photos from our hike soon though to hopefully tide you over.

I hope everyone has a great start to the summer tomorrow. My kids got out of school on Friday so it is officially summer now !! YEAH !!

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About Me

Hi. My name is Mindi and I am the mother hen to three little chicks. I love to take photographs, maybe too many. Because the other chicks who live with me think I'm a little camera crazy !! I also love to scrapbook and to be creative. A little bit, or maybe a lot, every day ! I hope you enjoy your stay and come back often.